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Number Of Replies Not Showing Up Correctly

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  • 31-12-2009 5:01pm
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    eVeNtInE
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    Conor
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    Where is that?


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    eVeNtInE
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    Conor
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    Hmm, odd.

    I don't see any particular reason why it would have shown up like that. It should be correct now.


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    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    That happens sometimes on the front page too, a new thread will have the 'new' tag on the front page, but there will be a reply to the thread. If you try searching for virgin threads and reply to a couple and go to the front page again, it may do it.

    testvm.png

    thread


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    Conor
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    OK, I've found the threads that have messed-up reply counts.

    It appears to affect 0.414% of threads and there's no apparent pattern to it. It has been going on for at least 5 years by the looks of things and it happens in clumps.

    The safest way to update the counts on a thread is to unapprove and then approve a post in it. I could try a blanket fixup in the DB but that runs the risk of screwing other stuff up.


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    Conor
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    OK, I may have a partial fix for this. It's a timing-related bug so it's hard to get a full fix for it. I'll see how we get on.


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    star-pants
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    Aye spotted a couple of these - I made mention in the other bug report thread about seeing the first response posters name beside the NEW thread on the home/subbed pages rather than the OP.

    And now I'm getting dual posts when I post this evening? Has happened twice


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    star-pants wrote: »
    Aye spotted a couple of these - I made mention in the other bug report thread about seeing the first response posters name beside the NEW thread on the home/subbed pages rather than the OP.

    Yep, that's because "NEW" is just an alias for "replies: 0".
    star-pants wrote: »
    And now I'm getting dual posts when I post this evening? Has happened twice

    Hmm, don't know about that. Probably unrelated.


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    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,582 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Have noticed this a lot on front page over last few days, one reply threads coming up as new. Have never noticed it before so it would seem to be happening a lot now, your stats maybe haven't caught up yet Conor?


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    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Not to nag - but I assume this problem may also result in the forum page showing you there's a new post by X and you click the dropdown arrow beside it to open it to the last read post, and the post by X isn't there. (it also doesn't bring you down the page, it just opens the page at the top, or if you click and it should be page 3 the new post is on, it will bring you to the top of page 2 and if you click 3 it just refreshes page 2)
    As this has been happening yesterday and today


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    copacetic wrote: »
    Have noticed this a lot on front page over last few days, one reply threads coming up as new. Have never noticed it before so it would seem to be happening a lot now, your stats maybe haven't caught up yet Conor?

    It appears to be a replication timing issue. By querying back over all the threads ever made, I can see that this has been a problem in the past but it happens in clusters.

    I have made a change which should improve the situation, but I can't say for sure yet if it's working.
    star-pants wrote: »
    Not to nag - but I assume this problem may also result in the forum page showing you there's a new post by X and you click the dropdown arrow beside it to open it to the last read post, and the post by X isn't there.
    As this has been happening yesterday and today

    Possibly related, but I can't be sure.


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    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Conor wrote: »

    Possibly related, but I can't be sure.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63787466#post63787466
    Not sure if it's still not working but it wasn't a few seconds ago. Last poster should be Mike1976 or something, but it shows last post by me. The forum shows that he has the last post.


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    Conor
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    star-pants wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=63787466#post63787466
    Not sure if it's still not working but it wasn't a few seconds ago. Last poster should be Mike1976 or something, but it shows last post by me. The forum shows that he has the last post.

    His post was deleted and you were seeing a transitional state.


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    star-pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    Conor wrote: »
    His post was deleted and you were seeing a transitional state.

    ah groovy - but this did happen in the API forum yesterday, no deleted posts (I'd have seen them as I'm mod there) so I thought showing an example would be better than trying to explain but obviously this ones different.

    someones got another one in Helpdesk http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055787296
    again dunno if it's a deleted post or that transitional state. Maybe there's a delay in the transitional state?


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    These issues should be fixed now. There may be some residual threads with messed-up reply counts but they should be quite rare.


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